Speech #980210730

I support that effort. but I sincerely hope that at the end of all this debate that we will be able to put in place another type of sanction. Let us sanction not that individual who hires someone to work. but sanction that individual who exploits that employee. that individual who does not obey existing laws. that individual. that employer who does not obey the existing labor laws of this land. that man or that individual who does not enforce the OSHA provisions now in the law. These are the employers who should be sanctioned because if you do sanction these employers. you will be eliminating the incentive that they now have to hire the undocumented. The undocumented come to the United States because they are hungry. because they need work. and those who hire the undocumented. for the most part. are men and women who operate sweatshops that hire them to work under adverse conditions. that pay them the lowest of salaries. I say let us take that incentive away from them. Let us sanction the employer that violates existing law.